Sentence examples for on the addicted from inspiring English sources

"Gambling is the tax on the addicted," said Senator David A. Paterson, of Harlem, who is the leader of the Senate Democrats.

Both these relationships went on long-term, and seemed to make little impact on the addicted person.

Bryson has written extensively on the subject of the addicted health care provider, and even published his book, Addicted Healers, in 2012.

The success of treatment for addiction is particularly dependent on the social milieu of the addicted individual, Dr. Volkow said.

In various scenarios of addiction, the addicted person's fixation on a shadow reality — one that does not conform to the world outside his or her use — is apparent to others.

As the film follows Holmes's metamorphosis from a gentle, post-hippie nobody to a cinematic somebody, to a manipulative, abusive, drug-addicted somebody-on-the-skids, it poses the same questions about stardom raised by a typical episode of "Behind the Music," the ubiquitous rock-star biography series on VH1.

Just as a figure skater makes art on slippery surfaces, the addicted person can also do the same.

Which doesn't change the fact that the company's revenue is largely dependent on the nicotine addicted as a category.

Newspapers and television broadcasts regularly report on students addicted to computer games who do not return home for days, steal money from their parents and give themselves to the wangbas in indentured servitude to pay their bills.

Is this the same Philip who storms out on the sex-addicted and unfaithful Oliver in the contemporary tale?

We might have been able to guess that Soderbergh's take on the kitsch-addicted superstar would turn out to be "mesmeric, riskily incorrect, outrageously watchable and simply outrageous" (The Guardian).